Sunday, June 16, 2013

Yep, it rained...... Oh, boy did it rain.

We spent the day riding from town to town here South of Kansas City.... Lewisburg and then LaCygne for lunch... Then back to Osawatomie and the same restaurant that we were to last week.....

It was very hot and humid, but I had my wet vest on for most of the afternoon. We ended up in an old bar in Hillsdale, where there is a COE dam and a state park with a campground...... Both of our son's and their families are camped out there this weekend..

But there was that 30 percent chance of rain..... And as we were finishing up with the auction of stuff for the High school scholarship.. the sky became really dark to our South.... We finished up in a hurry and I gave up on going out to the lake....

I high tailed it for home up the four lane Kansas highway 7.. I could hear the lightning behind me and the mirrors showed clouds that were catching me...

I opened the garage door with the closer remote and zoomed inside as the gust front was crossing over.... The rain came down almost instantly and the wind blew it into a blinding frenzy.......

I barely got the door closed.... From inside the house the trees whipped and were bent almost to the ground....... It took about an hour for the storm to pass and as I write this at about dusk, it is still overcast and eerie outside...

So much for that 30 percent chance of rain... But I managed to stay mostly dry... I did talk to the kids at the campground later in the afternoon, and they didn't have it as bad as we did here in town.... Still camping in the rain at a state park is confining when you have 5 kids to keep entertained.... Especially when they can't go outside of the trailers.....

But this is a typical day here in Kansas.... Hot and unbearably sunny, until the gust front and instant cool down causes a near tornado....